From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How do I compile Pascal and Fortran programs?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:02:40 -0500
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Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] (moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com) wrote:
> : Osah wrote:
>
> : > > Your chronology is a little mixed up. C was created as the same time
> : > > as UNIX, i. e. around the beginning of the seventies. I'm quite sure
> : > > this was before Pascal.
> : > I thought C was created from a language called 'B' (so i was informed) and
> : > then later on UNIX was rewritten entirely in C language.
> : I think it was a mixture of Ada and some language that starts with 'B'.
>
> Again the chronology seems to be severly mixed up. I really don't
> think Ada was near it's inception at that time. However the person Ada
> was well before this.
>
> Let me quote Harbison and Steele, C, a Reference Manual:
> "Dennis Ritchie designed the C language at Bell Laboratories in about
> 1972, and its ancestry dates from ALGOL 60 (1960), through Cambridge's
> CPL (1963), Martin Richards's BCPL (1967) and Ken Thompson's B
> language (1970) at Bell Labs."

Ooops, I meant Algol, not Ada...

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)